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Definition: Pansy |
PansyNoun1. Large-flowered garden plant derived chiefly from the wild pansy of Europe and having velvety petals of various colors. 2. A timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive. 3. Offensive terms for an openly homosexual man. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Pansy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a thought". |
Date "pansy" was first used: sometime around 1450. (references) |
Etymology: Pansy \Pan"sy\, noun; plural Pansies. [French Pens['e]e thought, pansy, from penser to think, Latin pensare to weigh, ponder. See Pensive.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | Polish (cwel ). (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A pansy violet (Viola tricolor 'hortensis', also known as 'heartsease') is a member of the violet genus of flowers.
Pansy violet 
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Violales Family: Violaceae Genus: Viola Species: tricolor Binomial name Viola tricolor Pansies have been bred in a rainbow of colours, ranging from gold and orange though to purple, violet, and a blue so deep as to be almost black. They are quite a hardy plant, growing well in sunny positions. Under good conditions, pansies and viola are perennial plants, although they are generally treated as annual or bi-annual plants because they get very leggy and overgrown after a few years. The mature plant grows to 9 inches (23 cm) high, and the flowers are two to three inches (about 6 cm) in diameter.
A smaller version of the pansy is the viola or Johnny jump up.
The Pansy has long been a symbol of Freethought and has been used in literature of the American Secular Union. The pansy gets its name from the French word pensée meaning "thought". It was so named because the flower resembles a human face and in August it nods forward as if deep in thought. Humanists like the symbol also, as the pansy's current appearance was developed from the Johnny jump up by two centuries of intentional cross-breeding of wild plant hybrids.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) uses the pansy symbol extensively in its lapel pins and literature.
Reference
- ITIS 2002-12-14
- A Pansy For Your Thoughts, by Annie Annie Laurie Gaylor
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pansy violet."
Synonyms: PansySynonyms: fag (n), faggot (n), fagot (n), fairy (n), milksop (n), nance (n), pantywaist (n), poof (n), poove (n), pouf (n), queen (n), queer (n), sissy (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pansy |
| English words defined with "pansy": Heart's-ease ♦ Pance, Pancy, Pansies, Paunce ♦ Viola tricolor hortensis, Violaquercitrin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pansy": Kiss behind the Garden Gate. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "pansy": Pendant. (references) |
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Screenplays | Come on ya pansy! (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Troops of the 185th Inf., 40th Div., take cover behind advancing tanks while moving up on Jap[anese] positions on Pansy Island, P.I. / official U.S. Army photograph. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pansy bed, Belle Isle [Park], Detroit. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Purple pansy" by Helen Lee Commentary: "Purple pansy." | "Pansy Macro" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "Ants eye view ..." |
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| "Pansy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 42.86% of the time. "Pansy" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 42.86% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 23.81% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "pansy" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Pansy | First name Female | 8,000 | 983 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "pansy": field pansy ♦ pansy boy ♦ pansy orchid ♦ pansy violet ♦ tufted pansy ♦ wild pansy. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "pansy": pansy-brain. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "pansy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | manushaqe tringjyrëshe, homoseksual (fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, gay, homosexual). (various references) | |
Arabic | لوطي (gay, homo, homosexual, invert, paederast, pederast, ponce, poof, prostitute, queer), زهرة الثالوث, شاب منحرف جنسيا, شاب مخنث, بنفسج الثالوث. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | трицветна теменуга, шик (chic, classy, dressy, pert, posh, rakish, saucy, snazzy, swell, swish), кокона (floozy), госпожица (demoiselle, ms., signorina), женствен мъж (mollycoddle), женствен (effeminate, emasculate, girlish, ladylike, sissy, soft, womanish), превзет (affected, cute, flamboyant, fussy, glossy, histrionic, lackadaisical, mannered, mincing, minikin, namby-pamby, nice, niminy-piminy, old-maidish, precious, pretentious, pretty, pretty-pretty, priggish, prim, prissy, pseudo, recherche, schoolmistressy, sidy, snobbish, stuffy), педераст (bugger, fag, faggot, fagot, homosexual, pederast, pouf, quean, queen, queer, sod, sodomite, swish), издокаран (in full rig, spiffing, spiffy, trig, trim). (various references) | |
Chinese | 蝴蝶花 (Pansies), 三色紫羅蘭 . (various references) | |
Czech | maceška (heartsease, love-in-idleness), buzerant (bugger). (various references) | |
Danish | stedmoderblomst (heart's ease). (various references) | |
Dutch | driekleurig viooltje (heart's ease, wild pansy, wild violet). (various references) | |
Esperanto | trikoloreto. (various references) | |
Farsi | رنگ قرمزمایل به ابی (Raisin), بنفشه سه رنگ . (various references) | |
Finnish | orvokki (violet). (various references) | |
French | pensée. (various references) | |
German | Stiefmütterchen (pansies, Viola). (various references) | |
Greek | πανσές (heart's ease). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אמנון ותמר (jack and jill), סגל שלוש גוני (viola tricolor). (various references) | |
Hungarian | árvácska. (various references) | |
Italian | viola del pensiero (heart's ease). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | パンの木 (breadfruit, bursting, Pan-Americanism, pancake, panchromatic, punctual, punctuation, puncture, punk, punk rock), 三色菫 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | パンジー , さんしきすみれ, さんしょくすみれ. (various references) | |
Korean | 팬지 (Pansies). (various references) | |
Manx | lus y Trinaid (great willow-herb), lus y chree (basil, coriander, violet). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ansypay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | amor-perfeito (heartsease, kiss-me-quick, love-in-idleness). (various references) | |
Romanian | pansele, pansea, trei fraţi pãtaţi, tânãr efeminat, homosexual (faggot, gay, homo, homosexual, Nancy, paederast, pederast, queer, sissy), fãtãlãu. (various references) | |
Russian | женоподобный (androgynous, effeminate, womanish, womanlike), анютины глазки (heartsease, kiss-me-quick, love-in-idleness), анютин глазок. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | homoseksualac (fag, fairy, gay, homosexual, queen, queer), homić, daninoć. (various references) | |
Spanish | pensamiento (contemplation, deliberation, foreboding, formulation, judgement, judgment, reflection, reflexion, thing, think, thinking, thought). (various references) | |
Swedish | pense, pensé, mes (milksop, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, softy, titmouse, tomtit, wet, wimp), homofil (fag, faggot, fairy, homo, homosexual, queer), fikus (queer, rubber plant). (various references) | |
Turkish | kadınsı erkek (pansy boy, patsy), homoseksüel erkek (fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, pansy boy), hercai menekşe (Viola). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гомосексуальний (homosexual, sodomitical), гомосексуаліст (homosexual, queer, sodomite), женоподібний (androgynous, effeminate), братки. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người tình dục đồng giới, hoa bướm, cây hoa păng-xê. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pensare, viola tricolor, Viola tricoloris. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Pansy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ansy, dansy, hansy, panay, Panayi, pandy, pangy, Panry, Pansa, panse, Pansio, Pansky, panso, pantsi, pantsy, panvy, pany, panyi, panz, panzi, panzy, parnassi, Parsy, pasay, pasey, passy, pendy, Pensi, phancy, Pinsky, pinsy, pinzy, pnas, poncy, Ponsyn, ponzi, ponzy, pranny. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pansy" (pronounced pa"nzē) |
| 5 | p a" n z ē | chimpanzee. |
| 4 | -a" n z ē | Tansy. |
| 3 | -n z ē | frenzy, Guernsey, Linsey. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-n-p-s-y" | |
-1 letter: naps, nays, pans, pays, pyas, snap, span, spay, yaps. | |
-2 letters: any, asp, ays, nap, nay, pan, pas, pay, pya, sap, say, spa, spy, syn, yap. | |
-3 letters: an, as, ay, na, pa, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-n-p-s-y" | |
+1 letter: pyrans, snappy, yapons. | |
+2 letters: dyspnea, frypans, paynims, spangly, spaying, synapse, syncarp, tympans, yaupons. | |
+3 letters: claypans, cyprians, dyspneal, dyspneas, dyspnoea, epinasty, gunplays, gypseian, hyponeas, nonplays, palsying, pansophy, paronyms, payments, phantasy, phytanes, playpens, polynyas, ptyalins, pyranose, sapiency, saponify, snappily, spinachy, spinally, splaying, spraying, synapsed, synapses, synapsid, synapsis, synaptic, syncarps, syncarpy, syncopal, syrphian, yawpings. | |
+4 letters: aepyornis, agrypnias, amylopsin, anaglyphs, antetypes, antipyics, antitypes, asynapses, asynapsis, bypassing, downplays, dysphonia, dyspnoeas, dystopian, egyptians, empyreans, ependymas, hyponoias, hypopneas, layperson, naphthyls, pantyhose, parsimony, pattypans, peasantry, pharynges, pharynxes, physician, picayunes, playdowns, playlands, polypneas, polyzoans, ponytails, popinjays, pyranoses, raspingly, sapiently, sparingly, sycophant, sympathin, synalepha, synapsids, synapsing, syncopate, syrphians, tympanies, tympanist, tympanums, underpays, unshapely, unsprayed. | |
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